Polluted Planet

In 2001, a research team found a can of spam meat from ....

Seabed Debris

 .... five kilometres down the slopes of the Mariana Trench.

Orthodox Revenge - Sentence Roulette

In a judgement that was a chilling reminder of those given by Nazi judges in Germany .....

Russia's Supreme Court Judge Yuri Ivanenko Reads
The Decision Banning The Jehovah's Witnesses.

...... Jehovah's Witnesses were banned in Russia in 2017, after the justice ministry successfully argued that the group distributed pamphlets which incited hatred of other groups.

Canem Caudis (Doggy Tails)

 Top Dog

A stray dog which had been tracking some mountain climbers in Nepal, and had refused to be shooed away by the Sherpas, ended up making it to the top of the 23,000ft mountain the Baruntse. The Sherpas thought that this was so auspicious that one adopted the cross breed (sheep dog and mastiff), and named her 'Baru'. 

Baru - A True Mountain Dog

To be fair Baru had to be helped for some parts of the climb, and was strapped to climbers for those parts of the climb. She had originally latched on to climb team leader Don Wargowsky from Seattle USA. Its believed to be a record climb for a dog.

Naughty School Girl

When mature South African student at Walter Sisulu University, Sibongile Mani got her monthly student grant June 2017 ....

Sibongile Mani

.... she expected it to be the usual amount of R1,400 rand .... but she found that in fact she had received R14m which is ($1m - £700,000).

Surviving The Next Apocalypse

Way back in August 2009, I wrote a small piece on Zombie Apocalypses  .....

ATM's Stop During A Zombie Apocalypse

.... and the scientists who used it as an analogy for pandemic spreads etc ....